I’m a second year PhD student at the University of Cambridge and Zoological Society of London, researching hihi social behaviour in the population on Tiritiri Matangi Island. One of the most common questions I’m asked by visitors to the island is “what’s a researcher from the UK doing working with a bird on an island […]
Radio interview with Graeme Hill available from Radio Live New Zealand at: http://www.radiolive.co.nz/Environews—Hihi-Stitchbirds/tabid/506/articleID/118152/Default.aspx John Ewen from the Zoological Society of London is interviewed by Graeme about his work on hihi and hihi conservation. In this interview John and Graeme chat about the challenges facing hihi, some of their colourful behaviours and their […]
Published in: Journal of Applied Ecology Date published: December 2013 Authors: Aliénor Chauvenet (1,2), John Ewen (1), Doug Armstrong (3), and Nathalie Pettorelli (1) 1) Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4RY, UK 2) Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK 3) Wildlife […]
A study conducted between research partners at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in the United Kingdom and the University of Auckland in New Zealand has revealed the importance of single males in small, threatened populations. Results from a study of endangered New Zealand hihi (Notiomystis cincta), were recently published in the research journal Evolutionary […]
The personalities of birds such as hihi can be affected by their diet as chicks in the nest, according to research by Massey University PhD student and Hihi Specialist Group member Kate Richardson. The latest chapter in Kate’s PhD thesis, which she is in the process of writing up, is entitled ‘Personality in hihi: the […]
